A REMINDER...ONE of Trump's 3-day golf weekends costs EIGHT times his annual salary that he "donates"

[Miles Archer]

The presidential salary is $400,000. Multiply that x 8 and you get a little bit less than $3,383,250 (the cost of one of his 3-day golf weekends).

A White House official confirmed to ABC News that $350 million has been raised for the ballroom project, saying the president "has received such positive and overwhelming support for the ballroom that he continues to receive donations."

The official did not address a question on what Trump plans to do with the additional $50 million raised.

Asked by ABC News White House Correspondent Karen Travers on Thursday how much of his own money he was planning to donate to the ballroom, Trump replied, "Oh, millions of dollars. Yeah. Well, I also give, you know, I give a lot of money to the White House. The White House is, as you know, I give my salary, and I usually like to steer it to the White House because this house was a little bit abandoned."

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-white-house-ballroom-after-officials/story?id=126843455

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2025/03/trumps-golf-game-taxpayers-cost-for-the-president-to-play-at-mar-a-lago.html

"...taxpayers have to shell out an estimated $3,383,250 for each golf trip to Florida. Trump stays at his resort during the trips, and plays at his Trump Internatnational Golf Course in West Palm Beach. And, due to the frequency in which the president has played, the site estimated that meant that taxpayers paid out at least $10.7 million for the president to hit the links across the first month of his second term..."

[tanyev]

1. And a big chunk of that is getting paid TO HIM.

U.S. taxpayers are being overcharged for every meal, beverage and bedbug-infested room the Secret Service needs while they are protecting him. WE are paying Donald Trump to golf at his own properties. 😒

The Trump Organization appears to have overcharged the Secret Service for stays at Trump-owned properties by agents protecting the then-president. The charges exceeded the government's approved rate, according to the House Oversight Committee, which says Secret Service records show payments totaling over $1.4 million.

"The exorbitant rates charged to the Secret Service and agents' frequent stays at Trump-owned properties raise significant concerns about the former President's self-dealing and may have resulted in a taxpayer-funded windfall for former President Trump's struggling businesses," Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney wrote in a letter to Kimberly Cheatle, the service's director.

According to the documents, the Secret Service was charged as much as $1,185 per room per night, nearly five times the government rate, which is set by the General Services Administration.

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/17/1129491352/trump-hotels-overcharged-secret-service-agents

[Miles Archer]

2. Yes...the biggest outrage there isn't that it's happening, it's the obscene "mark-uo."

Trump knows exactly what he's doing. I'm sure you've seen this Mother Jones piece:

Politics | August 4, 2020
The Trump Files: The Easiest 13 Cents He Ever Made
Tim Murphy National Correspondent
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/08/trump-files-spy-magazine-prank/

Spy correspondent Julius Lowenthal wanted to know just how cheap some of the city’s richest figures were. So he set up a company, called the National Refund Clearinghouse, and sent letters with checks for $1.11 enclosed, “for services that you were overcharged for.” The letters went out to 58 “well-known, well-heeled Americans,” 26 of whom promptly cashed them. Curious as to how low they might go, Lowenthal sent those 26 “nabobs” a second refund check, for $0.64. This time, 13 people cashed them.

Finally, he sent those 13 respondents a check for $0.13. This time, only two people cashed the check. One was an arms dealer. The other was Donald Trump, whom the magazine identified as a “demibillionaire casino operator and adulterer.”

[travelingthrulife]

4. This is why there is no doubt in my mind he was a business partner in Epstein's sex

trafficking of minors.

[travelingthrulife]

3. I can't even believe he is still running the scam of 'not taking a paycheck' and the rubes

still fall for it.

HE HAS STOLEN MILLIONS FROM US.

[Champp]

5. Republican billionaires love to SUCKER the American people